Organic or Free Range?

I am a great believer in not allowing animal cruelty, (excepting children under the age of 16, real age, not mental). I have recently been watching the River cottages newest program's and decided to try for myself.
We decided to go for free range as we thought that the price difference would be too great for the organic option. I have normally argued that the extra cash is not worth it as the taste will be the same. Watching the recent programmed made me think, what the hell, once isn't going to break the bank. Now free range has 2 meanings, as I see, true free range and one where the animals get a "choice" to go outside. We went for the "true" free range experience.
Luck was then even more on our side, an organic chicken was available at £5.50. We bought said bird, complete with all the trimmings, these I used for a tasty, fresh gravy. The taste was much better than I ever expected it to be. It really was worth the extra money.
Next time we will try "free range", the proper version to test this taste but I believe that it is/can be possible to pay that little bit more and still make extra food. The cost difference if you buy in larger quantities at first will allow you to make a whole weeks meals for not much more than it would using basic ingredients.
Lasagne, bolognese and shepherds/cottage pie all use the same basic base for the sauce then adapt each one as you use them.